Quest 313

[primrosella]

[Accidental Voice Post]

[The audio opens here with a clatter, as a Network device accidentally knocked askew goes tumbling to the ground and switches on by mistake--]

Oh, that horrible--it's ticking!

[There's an aghast pause, and then a shuffling flurry of movement, and then--]

Oh, no, no, no, it can't be, it--no, no, it can't--

[And with a little more rustling...]

--a machine!

[And it's quite impressive, really, how much horror and disgust and loathing she manages to compress into that one single word, and in the silence that follows before the feed switches off, the very faint sound of clockwork gears clicking can be heard.]


[OOC: Posting kind of early because I have an exam on Monday (ugh) but I didn't want to risk missing this curse because machines. TL;DR, Rosella (and everyone from Daventry) canonically loathes machinery, specifically of the clockwork-and-gears variety, so being turned into a clockwork princess today is...well. Subtle body horror at its finest? WELCOME TO OCTOBER IN THE CITY, I suppose. o/]

Comments

[misterblackbird]

But you also mustn't forget that it's a curse, and it will be over soon. You know well enough how to stand in the face of their curses. You and I have both been here long enough to know something of that.

[primrosella]

I know. Just until midnight. It's just a matter of lasting until then.

[misterblackbird]

[He's going to be bold now:]

Shall I stay with you until then? Or would you prefer to be alone?

[primrosella]

[Bold is as bold does, and her forehead is coming down to gently rest on his shoulder.]

Don't go. Please? Please just stay, I don't...

It's better. When you're here with me.

[misterblackbird]

[Gently, gently, he rests his hand against her hair.]

I should be glad to stay. Especially if it would be better for you.